[Resolved] Need Help With Multi-Author Site and Author Photos (WILL PAY)

I’m working on a site with multiple authors – over 30 – and I’m trying to avoid having to create a separate template for each author. It’s at http://www.michaeldpollock.com/dev3

The biggest problem I need to solve right now is how to show the author’s photo on their author page. I want to show the author’s photo in the side bar (outside the loop) on a page with all their posts.

I could set up a separate loop in the sidebar, but that gives me multiple copies of the author’s photo and description.

I managed to get the descrition to show up just once, but still haven’t found a solution for the photo. Example.

I could use some help on this project, and I’d be happy to pay anyone who can help me. PM me at savvysolo@gmail, and we can talk about it further, or if you have a sinple solution you’re willing to volunteer on teh forum, please do.

I’m not sure exactly what you envision. Is it that you want to add the author’s image next to their name whereever it appears or just in the sidebar? I looked at the author image plugin description and it looks like it would do what you want.

This is what I would do: “tag” (category) each post with the author’s name. Then you can simply hack your category sidebar (in sidebar.php) to show the author’s info/picture when looking at that particular category. Then you can hardlink to these category pages (with links or pictures) from anywhere on the site.

If you need more help, hit me up at ferodynamics.com

You could take this futher and show little author pictures in the boilerplate of each post (maybe derived from the category info). More tricky, but definitely possible.

If I understood you correctly you just need the author id. Instead of your line ‘if (is_author()) {‘ you could use ‘if($uid = is_author()) {‘. Then you get the user id of the author – even before the loop.
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I know it’s not applicable in this context, but if you like please check out this plugin (its the widget solution for the problem above): mAuthorWidget

greetings, markezz

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